On-line publications and on-line publication indices

Always try interlibrary loan before ordering a copy of a publication, unless you really want to buy your own copy.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics News Releases http://www.bls.gov/newsrels.htm
  Includes news releases on such topics as "Unemployed Persons by Sex and Age" and "Test of Methods for Collecting Racial and Ethnic Information" in Acrobat format.

• Center for Demography and Ecology Online Newsstand http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/library/news.htm
  An index of newsletters, journals and other online news sources of interest to CDE affiliates, including resources on population, family planning and development, Uuniversity of Wisconsin-Madison publications, and general news. Some sites require Adobe Acrobat.

• Fedstats http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html
  If it's a federal agency and it has statistics, it's here.

• Health and Retirement Study and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old--Papers and Publications http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/papers.html
  Abstracts of papers describing results of these studies, and papers focusing on Economic Status, Health and Cognition, Insurance, and Labor Force Participation among the elderly. Actual copies can be ordered for $4 from http://www.psc. lsa.umich.edu/pubs/pub-order.html.

• Institute for Women's Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org
  The Institute is a non-profit research organization founded to "rectify the limited availability of policy relevant research on women's lives and to inform and stimulate debate on issues of critical importance for women." The site is generally descriptive, but contains a good list of publications.

• Migration News http://128.120.36.171/
  Migration News is a magazine devoted to issues of immigration worldwide, with much coverage of US immigration. Articles themselves are on-line, as well as a searchable index of back issues and a database of information about California's Hispanic population

• National Center for Education Statistics: Subject Index http://nces01.ed.gov/pubsearch/Subindx.htm
  This is an index of all recent NCES publications, listed by subject. Subjects include "Minorities," "Minorities in Higher Education," and "Progress in Education of Blacks, Hispanics, and Women." Unfortunately, not all subject links lead to publications. Nevertheless, the publications that do exist are generally summarized in an on-line format.

• National Opinion Research Center (NORC) Discussion Papers http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/~wwwprc1/papers.dos
  Many of the papers listed are very relevant to this course, but only their names and very brief summaries are here. The papers themselves must be ordered for $2.00 each from (312)-753-7679

• Panel Study on Income Dynamics http://www.umich.edu/~psid
  A good source of information on this commonly used data set. You can get general information as well as the full data sets. There is also a user friendly for creating data extracts from the survey.

• Population Aging Research Center (at UPenn) Working Paper Series http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/aging/aging_wps.html
  Copies of papers such as "The Accuracy of Age Reporting among Elderly African Americans: Evidence of a Birth Registration Effect" and "Are Educational Differentials In Mortality Increasing in the United States?" are available in Adobe Acrobat Format

• Population Studies Center (Univ. of Michigan) Publications Search Page http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/pubs/search.html
  Search by keyword through the hundreds of papers published annually by the PSC.

• Population Index http://popindex.princeton.edu/
  Population Index is a bibliographic journal. It publishes quarterly journals of citations, and attempts to index every demographic article published in the world, in every language. All of the citations indexed since 1986 are searchable online.

• Population Today gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ungophers/popin/popis/journals/poptoday
  You're probably better off reading Population Today in McCabe--the on-line version only has issues from the past 3 years. However, if you're ever awake at 3am with the burning desire to read Population Today, complete texts are available here.

• Rand Corparotaions's Labor and Population Program Working Papers http://www.rand.org/organization/drd/labor/dru.html
  Abstracts of papers such as Updating Women's Life Course: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations, Intergenerational Earnings Links: Sons and Daughters, Poverty, Public Assistance and Children in Intact and Single-Mother Families, Marriage, Assets, and Savings, The Impact of Human Capital Investments on Pension Benefits, Public Policies, Private Support and Single Mothers' Schooling, Work, and Child Care, Explaining Changes in Recent Mothers Labor Supply, Simultaneity in the Timing of Marriage, Cohabitation and Non-Marital Fertility, Interdependencies Over the Life Course: Women's Fertility, Marital, and Educational Experiences, Do Women's Early Work Commitment and Welfare Attitudes Predict Employment After Childbirth?, Parents' Demand for Child Care, etc.

• Syracuse University's Center for Demography and Economics of Aging http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/demogctr/demogctr.htm
  Papers and descriptions of ongoing research projects, such as "Welfare Effects of Federal Low-Income Housing Assistance on the Elderly" and "Consumption-Based Tax Reform and the Aged" are available on-line.

• The Electronic Policy Network http://epn.org
  A consortiom of Public Policy Publications and Organizations, including The American Prospect, The Russell Sage Foundation, etc. Magazine Articles, information about organizations and foundations, working papers, etc.

• Trilogy Available on your own Computer!
  Trilogy is a searchable on-line index of magazines published in the past 15 years throughout the world. It contains far more publications than Wilson does. Trilogy front-ends can be found in the Databases folder of every Public Area Computer, and it can be downloaded from the Software and Information Server as well.

• Urban Institute's research papers http://www.urban.org/hotopics.htm
  These papers cover such topics as "Growing Income Inequality: Roots and Remedies", and " State Welfare Reform Efforts". Papers focus closely on current and proposed government policies. The papers are available in Adobe Acrobat format, and a searchable index is currently under construction.